• Creddit@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Because it’s an artifact from a time when having a website for a business was entirely optional, and novel. This wasn’t happening everywhere.

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      Because www.example.com and example.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.